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Nonprofit Social Media Smarts: Internal or External Social Networking Tools?

NTEN

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly adopting social networking tools to create a sense of community among members and donors. Although these statistics reinforce nonprofit's acceptance of social media, the numbers do not show whether organizations have adopted internal or external tools. .

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Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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5 Tips for Social Media Success from Bok Tower Gardens

NetWits

Nonprofits are taking advantage of this technology; according to the Nonprofit Social Networking Survey by NTEN, Common Knowledge & Blackbaud, the average nonprofit’s fan or follower base grew by 30 percent on Facebook and 81 percent on Twitter in 2011. Clearly, Bok Tower Gardens makes the most of their social media.

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How Does Your Organization Use the Social Web?

Tech Soup

Our pals at NTEN have put together a survey to poll how nonprofits are using social networking sites to increase their reach. Questions cover both external social networking efforts using sites like Twitter and Facebook to internal social networks that your organization may have created yourself (like a community forum).

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It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.

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Innogive Conference: Panel Integrated Mobile/Social Strategy for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Text Poll App from MobileCause. I just finished moderating a panel on the topic of social and mobile integration. Here’s the description: Where and how do mobile and social strategy intersect. It was powerful to watch the poll results come in live on the screen. I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today.

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Making a better, more findable blog

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As a first start, I have a new poll. poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 And, now that there is beginning to be a real movement toward open social networks, I’m really interested in that, and will be writing about that as it develops.